Logging Along The Denver & Rio Grande. Narrow Gauge Logging Railroads Of Southwestern Colorado And Northern New Mexico

GORDON S. CHAPPELL

Publication: Published by the Colorado Railroad Museum, 1971, Golden

First edition. Quarto. Dark green clot, titles stamped in gold gilt on the front cover and spine, pictorial front and rear endpapers, 190 pp., color frontispiece (Unloading logs at El Vado, by Howard Fogg), preface, double column, illustrated from photographs, maps, epilogue, acknowledgments, bibliography, roster, plans, index. Presents the story of the marriage between the railroad and lumber industries in a small corner of the American West between 1880 and 1970. It is largely the story of the lumber industry's discovery and use of the railroad as a tool for logging. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners and tiny holes in the channel area of the front cover.